Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being near the city: an epithet applied to the provinces of Italy which composed the ancient diocese of Rome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being in the suburbs; -- applied to the six dioceses in the suburbs of Rome subject to the pope as bishop of Rome.
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- adjective Describing any of the
six dioceses surroundingRome . These dioceses are always headed byCardinals of thehighest rank .
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Examples
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This activity extended not only to what were called the suburbicarian provinces but to distant lands, such as Spain, Illyricum,
The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 William Holden Hutton 1895
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"suburbicarian" bishops, however, by ancient custom reside at Rome.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The College of Cardinals is divided into three orders: the episcopal order, to which belong those Cardinals to whom the Roman Pontiff assigns the title of a suburbicarian Church, and eastern-rite Patriarchs who are made members of the College of Cardinals; the presbyteral order, and the diaconal order.
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Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, took possession of the suburbicarian diocese of Palestrina.
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On this day of sadness neither the Pope nor the deacons received Holy Communion, but the people were free to do so either at the Lateran, where one of the suburbicarian bishops celebrated, or at any of the titular churches in the city.
She Doesn't Pay Her Musicians! John 2008
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I direct a special thought to Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals, titulary of this suburbicarian diocese of yours, and who today joins his happiness with yours.
Zenit: Papal Homily at Albano Cathedral papabear 2008
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I direct a special thought to Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals, titulary of this suburbicarian diocese of yours, and who today joins his happiness with yours.
Archive 2008-09-21 papabear 2008
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In 1449 he made him Bishop of Ulazzara and in the same year conferred on him the suburbicarian See of Sabina, for which that of Frascati was shortly after substituted.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The town on this spot named after St. Rufina became the see of one of the suburbicarian dioceses that was later united with Porto
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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In 1814 he became suburbicarian Bishop of Sabina, and in 1818 Cardinal Vicar of Rome.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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